Quotes by Imitation One learns about painting by looking at and imitating other painters. Frank Stella imitating-others imitation painting Imitation is always insult--not flattery. Frank Lloyd Wright insult flattery imitation The only good imitations are those that poke fun at bad originals. Francois de La Rochefoucauld poke imitation fun Truth does not do as much good in the world as its imitations do harm. Francois de La Rochefoucauld imitation doe world In 'Imitation of Life', I was showing how a girl might feel under the circumstances, but I am not showing how I felt. Fredi Washington imitation girl might It is impossible to imitate Voltaire without being Voltaire. Frederick The Great imitation impossible Posterity weaves no garlands for imitators. Friedrich Schiller imitator garlands imitation The only good copies are those which make us see the absurdity of bad originals. Francois de La Rochefoucauld absurdity imitation copies The bad gains respect through imitation, the good loses it especially in art. Friedrich Nietzsche imitation gains art I'm a very big Notorious B.I.G. fan and I do an imitation of him that always cracks everybody up. Gene Ween imitation cracks fans To do the opposite of something is also a form of imitation, namely an imitation of its opposite. Georg C. Lichtenberg imitation form opposites Imitation is not just the sincerest form of flattery - it's the sincerest form of learning. George Bernard Shaw flattery imitation learning Everyone alters and is altered by everyone else. We are all the time taking in portions of one another or else reacting against them, and by these involuntary acquisitions and repulsions modifying our natures. Gerald Brenan acquisition imitation time My work has so much to do with reality that I wanted to have a corresponding rightness. That excludes painting in imitation. Gerhard Richter imitation painting reality Nature is commonplace. Imitation is more interesting. Gertrude Stein corny imitation interesting I now make it my earnest prayer, that God would have you, and the State over which you preside, in his holy protection... and finally, that he would most graciously be pleased to dispose us all to do justice, to love mercy, and to demean ourselves with that charity, humility, and pacifick temper of the mind, which were the characteristicks of the divine Author of our blessed religion ; without an humble imitation of whose example, in these things, we can never hope to be a happy Nation. George Washington imitation blessed humble Modern English, especially written English, is full of bad habits which spread by imitation and which can be avoided if one is willing to take the necessary trouble. George Orwell clarity imitation trouble Universities are filled with poets and novelists conducting demure and careful lives in imitation of Eliot and Forster and those others who (through what seems to be have been discretion) made it. Gore Vidal imitation novelists poet The residuum of another's expression can never be related to one's own feeling. Henri Matisse imitation expression feelings The picture is the imitation and converted reality of the goods, in short, an indirect substitute for reality. Herbert Bayer indirect imitation reality «123456789»